KOREA: We have recently talked about the Samsung employee who posted some details about Samsung’s Lollipop schedule on Reddit. Details just keep coming out of this and today we want to focus on what he said about TouchWiz on the Galaxy S6.
The alleged Samsung employee, which was verified by the moderator, gave us a lot of information about the South Korean tech giant just three days ago. The main focus of his post was the Lollipop update being scheduled in January for the Samsung Galaxy S5. However, once we went through all the comments, we learned a lot more information about Samsung’s plans. The account has since been deleted and all of those comments are gone. We pulled the exact quotes from the article and you can verify this by pulling up Google’s cache of the thread.
A fellow Redditor asked the Samsung employee if they have addressed the performance issues of TouchWiz in the Lollipop release for the Galaxy S6. He responded and said that Project Zero “is indeed a real thing” and that “overall device responsiveness is vastly improved. The Samsung employee continues and tell us “memory consumption is way down. . .some build[s] have freed over a gig of memory consumption from [a] cold boot”.
Since TouchWiz has been written from the ground up for Lollipop, this employee is unable to tell us whether 100% of the legacy features have been brought forward to the new software. So if anyone has been turned off by the performance of TouchWiz in the past, you might want to try it out when the Galaxy S6 (and the other Lollipop updates) is released.
There was actually a completely different post on Reddit recently where someone received the official Lollipop update on their Galaxy S5 and they talked about how much the performance improved. If Samsung can pack in all features that TouchWiz is known for, and keep the performance as buttery smooth as stock Android, they just might be able to win back some of their customers.
